The Foreign Minister of Colombia, Luis Gilberto Murillo, met this Saturday in the department of Chocó with a delegation of US congressmen led by Democrat Gregory Meeks, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives, seeking to “strengthen ties and attract investments.
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“I am very pleased to receive in Colombia, my home, the delegation of congressmen from the United States, led by my friend, Congressman Gregory Meeks, a man who 25 years ago decided to commit to the development and inclusion of the territories of the deep Colombia“wrote the Colombian foreign minister in his X account.
To add: ““His presence in Chocó, the African heart of our country, represents, for our people, the opening of doors and opportunities that not only inspire, but transform lives.”
The objective of our foreign policy is to strengthen ties and attract investments that change the lives of our citizens, generating a prosperous future full of opportunities.”
En Quibdó estuvimos con jóvenes exbecarios y exbecarias de programas como Fulbright, Martin Luther King Jr. y Colfuturo, quienes demuestran que el talento, la disciplina y el esfuerzo, cuando encuentran oportunidades, pueden transformar vidas.
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— Luis Gilberto Murillo (@LuisGMurillo) December 14, 2024
United States Congressmen.
Murillo accompanied the text with some photographs of the visit of the US congressmen. The delegation will meet, in addition to Murillo, with “regional leaders, youth and members of civil society to advance the bilateral relationship between the United States and Colombia and defend the rights of Afro-indigenous peoples, including the implementation of the Ethnic Chapter of the 2016 peace agreement“explained the Democratic congressmen in a statement.
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Also part of the delegation are other members of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives, who before reach Chocó they participated in Cali in a meeting on cultural entrepreneurship and in a discussion on inclusive economic development in the Pacific region, the Colombian Foreign Ministry reported.
EFE
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